Chapter
XIII.—Demophilus, an Arian, became Bishop of
Constantinople after Eudoxius. The Pious elect Evagrius. Account of the
Persecution which ensued.

About this time the Emperor
Valens went to Antioch on the Orontes; while he was on his journey
Eudoxius died, after having governed the churches of Constantinople
during the space of eleven years.14531453 Soc. iv. 13–15; Philost. ix. 4–10.
Demophilus was immediately ordained as his successor by the Arian
bishops. The followers of the Nicene doctrines, believing that the
course of events was in their power, elected Evagrius as their bishop.
He had been ordained by Eustathius, who had formerly governed the
church of Antioch in Syria, and who having been recalled from
banishment by Jovian, lived in a private manner at Constantinople, and
devoted himself to the instruction of those who held his sentiments,
exhorting them to perseverance in their view of the Divine Being. The
Arian heretics were stirred to revolt, and commenced a violent
persecution against those who had participated in the ordination of
Evagrius. The Emperor Valens, who was then at Nicomedia, on being
apprised of the occurrences that had taken place in Constantinople
since the death of Eudoxius, was fearful lest any interest of the city
should suffer by sedition, and therefore sent thither as many troops as
he thought requisite to preserve tranquillity.

355Eustathius was
arrested by his command and banished to Bizya, a city of Thrace, and
Evagrius was exiled to some other region. And such was the manner of
this event.